KUMAR TALKIES

DescriptionDescription An ambitious exploration of the relationship between Kalpi - a small town in northern India - and its only surviving cinema, KUMAR TALKIES chronicles Kalpi's economic decline and its citizens' hopes and frustrations while taking a nostalgic look at the lost, lavish world of cinema. The film also considers the influence of television, which...

THE LEGEND OF 1900

DescriptionDescription An extraordinary tale of a virtuoso musician born at sea who never sets foot on dry land. THE LEGEND OF 1900 tells the story of a boy's unique journey to manhood. Abandoned on an ocean liner and named for the year in which he was born, Nineteen Hundred grows up within the confines of...

KUMAR TALKIES

DescriptionDescription An ambitious exploration of the relationship between Kalpi - a small town in northern India - and its only surviving cinema, KUMAR TALKIES chronicles Kalpi's economic decline and its citizens' hopes and frustrations while taking a nostalgic look at the lost, lavish world of cinema. The film also considers the influence of television, which...

THE LEGEND OF 1900

DescriptionDescription An extraordinary tale of a virtuoso musician born at sea who never sets foot on dry land. THE LEGEND OF 1900 tells the story of a boy's unique journey to manhood. Abandoned on an ocean liner and named for the year in which he was born, Nineteen Hundred grows up within the confines of...

THE LEOPARD (IL GATTOPARDO)

DescriptionDescription A favorite of both Scorsese and Coppola, as well as a gorgeous evocation at a past era, this Italian masterpiece tells the saga of a Sicilian landowner as he loses power during the unification of Italy in the 1800s. The original Film was saddled with a poor English dub and over- processed color. Fox...

LIFE IS TO WHISTLE (LA VIDA ES SILBAR)

DescriptionDescription A compelling story of fated encounters and personal revelations, LIFE IS TO WHISTLE is a fusion of absurdist humor and mystical realism. In end-of-millennium Havana, 18-year-old Bebe introduces us to three people whom she "loves very much": Elpidio, a listless, womanizing musician; Mariana, a passionate young ballerina; and Julia, a devoted caregiver who faints...

KILLER

DescriptionDescription A beautiful gangster bride gives a professional hitman an order. What appears to be an easy job turns into a hellride when he learns he must kill the Godfather.

KILLING JOE

DescriptionDescription In 1963, thirteen-year-old Joe Fergal Kennedy is a daydreaming Londoner. Fascinated by JFK, the new American president with whom he shares his initials, Joe imagines that he too may some day change the world. But his reveries are interrupted by the arrival of his older brother, Doug, and his striking girlfriend, Jackie, to whom...

KILLING JOE

DescriptionDescription In 1963, thirteen-year-old Joe Fergal Kennedy is a daydreaming Londoner. Fascinated by JFK, the new American president with whom he shares his initials, Joe imagines that he too may some day change the world. But his reveries are interrupted by the arrival of his older brother, Doug, and his striking girlfriend, Jackie, to whom...

IN THE REGION OF ICE

DescriptionDescription Based on a Joyce Carol Oates short story, this film explores the relationship between a brilliant but disturbed college student and the nun who is his English Literature teacher. Although she tries to help him alter his self-destructive ways, she is ultimately unable to change the course of their lives.

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